Word: proteans
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...there is one international musical figure who can truly be described as protean, it is Pierre Boulez. The former enfant terrible of French composers, who combines a brilliant mathematical mind with an expert musical ear, Boulez has been the chief theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that...
...four new roles, this might even be called an Ib Andersen Festival. He is an elegant, ardent dramatic dancer who has the clear allegro technique that the "Balanchine style" needs. If Robbins does not test him (as Balanchine does in Mozartiana), he makes Piano Pieces a study of the protean Andersen in motion...
...three types: gripes, boasts or confessions. Few are flexible enough to encompass all of these forms, but those that do can evoke sympathy for the writer and emnity for his oppressors. Charles LeBaron's Gentle Vengeance--An Account of the First Year at Harvard Medical' School is this protean type; complaining and bragging, it is an autobiography in institutional clothing...
...four actors playing Aladdin are supposed to embody different aspects of his character. Some do--Jeannie Affelder, with her melancholy clown's face and breathily resonant voice, touchingly conveys the pain of protean identity, and Rodman Flender does well with Aladdin's ironic side. Kevin Avery and Paul Warner--though able performers--do not realize markedly different dimensions of the character. Although the protagonist's multiplicity robs the show of a central performer with whom one could empathize, the four Aladdin's intriguingly suggest an entire universe within a single body. (More's the pity that some people go through...
...peripheral character. He is Katarina's homosexual business partner, who introduced the murderer to his victim, and who, in examining his motive for so doing, discovers that the strings that moved him are far too tangled for rational explanation. In these arias an actor named Walter Schmidinger does protean work. The rest of the cast is excellent too, but because Tim is the only one who fully grasps Bergman's philosophical idea, he is the only one who can express a full range of free, unpuzzled emotions. His wisdom, compassion and anguish briefly quicken and warm a bleak...